Bleeding lesions within reach of conventional endoscopy in capsule endoscopy examinations for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: Is repeating endoscopy economically feasible?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1763-1768

  Vlachogiannakos, Jiannis ^a   Papaxoinis, Kostis ^a   Viazis, Nikos ^b   Kegioglou, Anastasia ^b   Binas, Ioannis ^a   Karamanolis, Dimitrios ^b   Ladas, Spiros D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Colonoscopy; Gastroscopy; Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CECUM; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLON INJURY; COLONOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; DUODENUM BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959753094     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1592-3     Document Type: Article

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